Cricket, conception, crochet and other stuff.

When we arrived home from Granny & Big Grandad's early Friday evening, K & M were very disappointed to hear that they hadn't been home when their new friend L, who's very recently moved in opposite us, had called round to see if they wanted to play.  A had already started cooking tea, but it wasn't going to be ready for a while, so they went over and ended up staying until tea was ready.  They were very disappointed to find out that L wasn't going to be around for the weekend, as she's going to stay at her dad's.

Saturday was A's penultimate cricket match of the season.  After a reasonable start to the season, he has had rather a lot of ducks (or noughts), but last week did extremely well with 84 not out (he opens the batting).  He was very pleased with this, but extremely stiff as a result!  The girls and I hadn't been to watch any games so far this season, as he had been dropped to the thirds for much of the season and they don't play any of their matches at their home ground, even the 'home' matches.  For the past couple of weeks though, he's been back in the seconds and this match was a home one.  So partly to watch him and partly because I was going to help out a friend with mid-move putting a van load of stuff into storage and the girls were going to stay with him rather than come, we went along to the cricket ground.  I was rather perplexed when we arrived, as A was batting and the score board seemed to indicate that it was the second innings, but when we went into the clubhouse, they hadn't yet had tea, which they usually have between the innings.  It turned out that A's team had got the opposition out so quickly that they had decided to have tea after the match instead of in the middle.  He had another good game with about 40 not out and the game was over just in time before a quite torrential downpour.

Post downpour amazing rainbow with extra blue & violet underneath!

Finishing so early meant that A could come along and help with the moving, which was extremely helpful.

All the kids at the storage place.

On the way home the conversation turned to how it's possible to chose to have a baby even if there isn't a 'daddy' around.  The girls have got one friend locally whose father was a sperm donor for example.  So we talked about conception and how usually the sperm is deposited in the vagina directly from the penis, but it doesn't have to be and you could for example use a syringe.  K suggested that you could get sperm from a tank where it's stored, and I think she had an idea that there might be a bit vat of sperm where you suck some up into a syringe to use which really gave me the giggles, much to her bemusement.  We'll probably return to the idea of 'other' ways to make a baby, such as IVF at a later date.

In other news both girls have decided that they would like a penfriend.  K has already written in reply to one of the penfriend requests in Aquila which arrived yesterday.  She has tried this once before but didn't hear anything, so fingers crossed she'll get a reply this time.  I have suggested that she could put her own request in the magazine, but she doesn't want to do that.  M also wants a penfriend, but has gone for the option of me asking in a Facebook group if anyone has a child that is interested.  We have found someone who is, so she is planning on writing the first letter today or tomorrow.

M had two lots of post yesterday, her copy of Aquila and something she's been hoping for for a while now.

A replacement Blue Peter badge!

Finally, I've started making the crochet top that I bought the pattern and yarn for a couple of weeks ago.  I took me a while to manage to follow the pattern to make a tension square, but I managed eventually and I think doing that has helped me to get going better when I moved on to making the top.

Progress at the end of the first day.